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Examination by a country's courts of the actions of the legislative, executive, and administrative branches of government to ensure that those actions conform to the provisions of the constitution. Actions that do not conform are unconstitutional and therefore null and void. The practice is usually considered to have begun with the ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States in Marbury v. Madison (1803). Several constitutions drafted in Europe and Asia after World War II incorporated judicial review. Especially subject to scrutiny in the U.S. have been actions bearing on civil rights (or civil liberty), due process of law, equal protection under the law, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and rights of privacy. See also checks and balances.

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No references found			The TD added: "It looks likely that we will have as many judicial reviews in 2009 as in 2008 even though the number of new asylum applications has fallen dramatically in the last number of years. OUTRAGE AT EUR2.8M ASYLUM APPEALS BILL; Refugee tribunal a 'cash cow ... by The Mirror (London, England) While not prepared to prejudge the outcome, Lansbury said: "Normally judicial reviews are quite successful because people don't launch them lightly and there have to be grounds for going forward. London track set for judicial review in the High Court by The Racing Post (London, England) Wirral South MP Ben Chapman last night spoke of his concerns that the Passenger Transport Authority's pursuit of separate judicial reviews against Liverpool coroner Andre Rebello and the Police Complaints Authority could spiral out of control. Stop wasting our cash; MP's call in tunnel legal row by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)			judder bar Jude Jude, Saint Judea Judenburg judge Judge CR Magney State Park judgement Judges Judging Key Judgment Judgment Day judgment lien Judgment of God judgment sample Judgment, Day Judgment, Day of Judicial Division Judicial Duel Judicial Examination Judicial Power Judicial Practice Judicial Procedure Judicial Reform of 1864 judicial review judicial reviews Judicial Statistics Judicial Statutes Judicial Supervision Judicial System Judicial-Administrative Reform of 1889 judiciary Judith Judith Basin County Judo Judo Mats Judson powder Judson, Adoniram Judson, Edward Zane Carroll Judson, Margaret Atwood Jufrah, Al- Jug End State Reservation & Wildlife Management Area Jug Handle State Reserve jugal Jugatae jugate juge d'instruction Jugendstil juggernaut juggler Juggling			judicial proceedings Judicial process Judicial process judicial proclamation Judicial Productivity Credit Judicial Project Investment Justification judicial pronouncement Judicial Qualifications Commission Judicial Recommendation against Deportation judicial reconsideration judicial recorder Judicial Records and Archives Unit judicial reexamination Judicial Reform Council Judicial Reform of 1864 Judicial Reform Project Judicial relief judicial remark Judicial remedies Judicial remedy judicial reprimand Judicial Research and Training Institute judicial review judicial review judicial review Judicial Review of Agency Actions Judicial Review of Sex-Based Discrimination Judicial Review of Sex-Based Discrimination judicial reviews judicial sale judicial sale judicial secretary judicial sentence judicial separation judicial separation of a husband and wife judicial separations Judicial Services Advisory Board Judicial Standards Commission Judicial Statistics Judicial Statutes Judicial Studies Board Judicial Studies Board for Northern Ireland Judicial Studies Institute Judicial Studies Institute Journal Judicial Supervision judicial system judicial system judicial system Judicial System Monitoring Programme judicial torture judicial tribunal judicial validation of a will judicial verdict Judicial Watch, Inc. Judicial Work Shadowing Scheme judicial writ

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